China News Service, Guangzhou, March 5 (Reporter Cheng Jingwei) The 14 coastal prefecture-level listed cultural and tourism administrative departments in Guangdong Province jointly signed the "Guangdong Coastal (Island) Tourism Alliance Regulations" in Guangzhou on the 5th, declaring the Guangdong Coastal (Island) ) The Tourism Alliance was formally established.
Guangdong is located on the coast of the South China Sea, with a total length of more than 2,000 kilometers of island coastline, ranking first in China, and has 1963 islands.
Guangdong is also the birthplace of the Maritime Silk Road, with rich relics of maritime silk, coastal defense and marine culture, such as the ancient shipwreck "Nanhai I", the ancient sunken "Nan'ao I", Guangzhou Nanhai Temple, Chaozhou Guangji Bridge, etc.
In recent years, the scale of Guangdong's coastal tourism market has grown rapidly. The number of tourists received by 14 coastal cities in the province has increased from 280 million in 2015 to 367 million in 2019, and urban tourism revenue has increased from 704.1 billion yuan in 2015 to 2019. Of 1048.5 billion yuan, an increase of 49% within 4 years.
According to the "Guangdong Coastal (Island) Tourism Alliance Regulations", the alliance implements a joint conference system, which in principle is held in rotation among member cities once a year, to study and coordinate major issues of coastal tourism development, and coordinate the development of coastal tourism among its members , Carry out coastal tourism promotion, research and develop cross-island tourism products, etc.
In accordance with the principles of openness and dynamics, the alliance will expand its membership in a planned way and establish an expert consultation system.
The first rotating chairman unit of the alliance is Guangzhou Culture, Radio, Television and Tourism Bureau.
Liu Yumei, director of the bureau, said that it will strengthen the cruise tourism cooperation between Guangzhou and Shenzhen, and promote the implementation of the 144-hour transit visa exemption for foreign tourists entering the cruise home port and the 15-day visa exemption for cruise group passengers.
She said that she will support the development and construction of coastal cultural tourism projects such as Shenzhen Jinshawan International Park, Huizhou Dongsheng Island, Xizhou Island, Jiangmen Bihai Yinhu, etc.; strengthen cooperation between Guangzhou Nansha and Dongguan Humen, and integrate the upper and lower horizontal islands on both sides of the Pearl River and the Humen Fortress group , The Opium War Museum and other high-quality coastal defense cultural heritage resources, jointly build a coastal defense site national cultural park, and cultivate a cross-island research theme route for patriotism education in coastal defense sites.
From March 4th to 5th, the Guangdong Province Global Tourism and Coastal (Island) Tourism High-quality Development Training Course was held in Panyu District, Guangzhou City. About 150 people participated in the training.
Wang Yiyang, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Department of Culture and Tourism of Guangdong Province, said that Guangdong will take the high-quality development of global tourism as the starting point, deepen the integrated development of culture and tourism, and strive to make culture and tourism an important support and material for the construction of spiritual civilization in the province. An important pillar of civilization construction, strive to create cultural advantages that match economic strength, accelerate the creation of a world-class tourist destination in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and build a higher-level cultural and tourism province. (Finish)